Re: [Etherboot-developers] TFTP speed

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"James Newlin" <jn...@me...> writes:

> Hi. Not sure if this is the correct place of this post, forgive me if it is
> not.    It seems that the TFTP speed downloading a kernel from an Etherboot
> workstation using a standard 33.6 modem is very slow.  I know that 33.6kbps
> is nothing like 10 or 100-base-T, but we can see the send/recv LEDs blink
> very slowing, which makes us think that maybe there is some sort of sleep
> state in place.   The modems send/recv LEDs are on constantly after the
> kernel is loaded and booted up and the application is running.   Is there
> some sort of built in sleeps or maybe timeouts with TFTP-SERVER.0.17-9.RPM?
> Server is RedHat 7.2.      Would it be worth trying other TFTP servers?
> 

Is the modem code in etherboot, or do you have a router in the middle
talking over the 33.6 link?

If the code is in etherboot I'd love to have a look at it.  Being
able to boot over the serial port has a strange appeal in certain
weird circumstances.

Eric